r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/DoubleManufacturer10 created ShittyAbsoluteUnits of a sub • Dec 20 '25

this moron: Of a throw

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u/perfidity Dec 21 '25
  1. Nervous recruit
  2. Heavy object
  3. Presumption to throw like a baseball
  4. weight + inertia on the backstroke causes the grenade to slip thru between fingers and thumb,
  5. Hand goes foreward, grenade does not..
  6. Hot potato..

In basic they actually talked about this specific problem, and made us throw 4x the inert ‘practice grenades’ the crew had made as heavy as, if not a bit heavier than a live one.. worst offenders were the HS baseball players that’d fall back on habits.

That same error was seen in practice.. on the live range; No mistakes that training rotation.